I asked Fred Graver — who makes real TV at VH1’s Best Week Ever and Acceptable.TV — what advice he has for the candidates and their online video and got a smarter answer to that question than I’ve gotten yet. And funnier. Because Fred knows funny. Enjoy:

For some reason, political candidacy appears to confer some kind of ‘stuffed shirt’ status onto anyone who tosses their hat into the ring. Suddenly they become ‘dignitaries,’ and dignity, as we know, is the antithesis of spontaneity.

This is right on. I’m the EP of g4’s Attack of the Show and we think about this idea a lot (the idea of internet video vs. TV produced video) and are still toying with the best way to present it on TV. Do you cut it down? How do you determine it’s essence? If you cut it and chop it it loses something.